Fedora formerly “fedora core” is a RPM based general purpose collection of software including an operating system based on Linux kernel, developed by community support & sponsored by Red Hat.
According to distrowatch.com fedora is the third most visited Linux based operating system. The Fedora project was created in late 2003 when Red Hat Linux was discontinued. The name Fedora derives from Fedora Linux, a volunteer project that provides extra software for
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| Warren Togami |
Warren Togami began Fedora Linux in 2002 as an undergraduate project intended to provide a single repository for well tested third-party software package.
The main purpose of fedora is that the updated version of software are used with every Fedora package. One of best object of Fedora is not only contain software under Free & Open Source Software Licensed, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora developers prefer to make up stream change instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedora.
The different between Red Hat and Fedora was that Fedora’s repository development would be collaborative with the global community.
Fedora was a trademark of Red Hat. But this had disputed by the creators of unrelated Fedora repository management software. Now Fedora project is governed by a board whose mostly is elected by The Fedora Community.
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